The funding ranges from $45,000 to eliminate wastewater discharges from septic systems in a mobile home park in McKean County, to $17,500,000 to replace an existing wastewater treatment plant and eliminate wet weather discharges of inadequately treated waste into Stony Creek, in Cambria County.

The funding for today's projects brings PENNVEST's total funding for community water, sewer and storm water projects to more than $3.6 billion since the program's inception.

Project details follow:

Brownfields Bucks County

The Bucks County Redevelopment Authority: $5,331,650 loan to remediate soil and groundwater chemical contamination resulting from various manufacturing activities that occurred from 1917 to 1997 on a twenty-six-acre site along the Delaware River in the Cornwell Heights section of Bensalem Township.

Philadelphia County

Philadelphia Authority for Industrial Development: $1,750,013 loan to construct drinking water distribution lines, sanitary sewer collection lines and storm water facilities to eliminate soil and groundwater contamination and support commercial development on 4.5 acres of a 70-acre site at the City of Philadelphia Navy Yard.

Acid Mine Drainage
Green County

AMD Reclamation, Inc.: $9,500,000 loan to construct a reverse osmosis treatment facility that will allow the effluent at the mine Shannopin Mine Pool in Dunkard Township to meet water quality standards, over and above the best available treatment standards currently being provided.

Drinking Water
Allegheny County

Shaler Township: $3,355,500 loan to increase the Township's available drinking water supply, thereby eliminating chronic low water flows and pressures, by constructing two new water storage tanks and increasing the elevation of two existing storage tanks.

Bedford County

Bedford Township Municipal Authority: $450,000 loan to construct almost a mile of new distribution lines that will serve the Village of Wolfsburg, where fifty percent of the residential drinking water wells have been found to be contaminated by coliform bacteria.

Cambria County

Cherry Tree Borough Municipal Authority: $254,227 loan and $901,643 grant to replace over three miles of old, deteriorated and undersized distribution lines, some dating back to 1898, that have significant amounts of leakage; along with improvements to the water reservoir and treatment plant.

Clearfield County

Clearfield Municipal Authority: $21,046 loan and $703,954 grant to design and construct a new water storage tank, over a mile of distribution mains and three fire hydrants, as well as install new residential water meters, to eliminate leakage from antiquated water mains that results in insufficient pressure in the system.

Graham Township: $170,699 loan and $124,301 grant to construct almost three miles of water main, two fire hydrants and other facilities needed to connect 32 households with the Pennsylvania American Water Company. These households are currently using private wells that have both chemical and bacterial contamination.

Cumberland County

Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.: $677,839 loan to construct a 250,000-gallon water storage tank to serve 284 households in Monroe Township that experience water outages during power outages due to their relatively high elevation.

Huntingdon County

Petersburg Borough Authority: $919,855 loan and $280,145 grant to rehabilitate the Authority's reservoir and impoundment dam in order to eliminate numerous ruptures and control overflow and water levels, thus improving water quality and providing an adequate water source for consumption and fire protection during dry weather conditions.

Indiana County

Indiana County Municipal Services Authority: $11,714,350 loan to construct the new Crooked Creek water treatment plant, two storage tanks and over fifteen miles of water distribution lines that will provide a regional water supply by interconnecting with five smaller systems and eliminating two other systems that are unable to provide adequate quality and quantities of water.

Luzerne County

Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.: $2,611,380 loan to construct a 215,000-gallon storage tank, over two miles of distribution mains to interconnect seven separate small systems and to either develop or improve drinking water wells, thus improving overall reliability and eliminating the potential health problems associated with water outages.

Northampton County

Riverby Corporation: $101,500 loan to provide a safe and reliable source of drinking water to 32 homes in the Riversedge Mobile Home Park by constructing a new well to replace one well that collapsed and another that is contaminated with nitrates.

Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc.: $1,054,868 loan to construct a new water storage tank and 1,000 feet of water main to connect the tank to the Coal Township Industrial Park, where a major food processor, Reinhart Food Services, will be creating over 900 high-paying jobs in the next three years.

Schuylkill County

Schuylkill Haven Borough: $2,750,000 loan to upgrade an antiquated treatment plant by constructing new water filtration facilities and by making improvements to the sludge handling facilities, thereby reducing turbidity and improving water quality.

Tioga County

Nelson Township Authority: $571,410 grant to construct a new surface water intake and treatment plant to provide service to 120 households that experience recurring water shortages because their groundwater sources are inadequate.

Wellsboro Municipal Authority: $2,587,613 loan to construct a new water storage tank, a re-chlorination facility and over four miles of distribution lines to provide an adequate water supply and to eliminate contamination by bacteria and algae in existing water sources.

Wastewater

Allegheny County

Leetsdale Borough Municipal Authority: $860,000 loan to upgrade four pump stations and the treatment plant to eliminate wet weather bypassing of untreated wastewater, which poses a contamination threat to the Ohio River.

Bedford County

Bedford Township Municipal Authority: $1,330,000 loan to construct over two miles of sanitary sewer lines, manholes and related facilities to serve the Village of Wolfsburg, where over half of the on-lot septic systems are malfunctioning and contaminating local water supplies.

Cambria County

Stony Creek Township: $875,000 loan to rehabilitate over a mile of sanitary sewer lines and extend another 4,000 feet of new collection lines to eliminate wet weather discharges of untreated wastewater into Stony Creek and to serve homes whose septic systems are malfunctioning.

Windber Area Authority: $17,500,000 loan to replace an existing inadequate wastewater treatment plant with a new plant that will have sufficient capacity to handle peak flows during wet weather and eliminate discharges of inadequately treated waste into Stony Creek.

Dauphin County

East Hanover Township: $5,300,000 loan to construct a new wastewater treatment plant to replace the existing overloaded and malfunctioning plant, which will be converted into a pump station and connected to the new plant by an interceptor. This will eliminate wet weather bypasses of inadequately treated waste into Bow Creek.

Erie County

Middleboro Municipal Authority: $602,400 loan to design and construct a new wastewater treatment plant and headworks to replace the existing plant that has exceeded its design life and is discharging inadequately treated waste.

Fayette County

Fairchance Georges Joint Municipal Sewage Authority: $7,599,272 loan and $1,000,000 grant to construct almost nineteen miles of new collection lines and a pump station and expand the sewage treatment plant in order to eliminate the use of malfunctioning on-lot septic systems that are discharging raw sewage into Georges Creek.

Green County

Center Township: $1,300,000 grant to construct over a mile of sanitary sewers and a new sewage treatment plant to serve the Village of Rogersville, where wildcat sewers are discharging untreated waste directly into Ten Mile Creek.

Huntingdon County

Huntingdon Borough: $984,000 loan to construct 1,000 feet of combined sewer, an overflow bypass and other facilities that will eliminate sewage backups in homes caused by an overloaded interceptor.

Lawrence County

Wayne Township Municipal Authority: $3,429,850 loan to construct over ten miles of collection lines, a pump station and other facilities to eliminate the use of malfunctioning on-lot septic systems that are discharging untreated waste into publicly accessible areas.

Lebanon County

CHP Acquisition, Inc.: $1,000,000 loan to upgrade an existing wastewater treatment plant that is discharging raw and inadequately treated waste into Beach Run.

Luzerne County

Butler Township: $347,000 loan to construct new sewer mains that will eliminate the use of malfunctioning on-lot septic systems by 27 households in Butler Terrace.

McKean County

Shonts Mobile Home Park: $45,000 loan to construct almost a mile of sewer lateral lines to eliminate the use of malfunctioning on-lot septic systems in the mobile home park.

Northampton County

Portland Borough: $270,200 loan to design over three miles of collection lines and a pump station to eliminate the use of malfunctioning on-lot septic systems that are discharging inadequately treated waste into both surface and ground waters.

Somerset County

Somerset Township Municipal Authority: $2,662,000 loan to construct over five miles of sanitary sewers and force mains, two pump stations and a new sewage treatment plant to serve areas of the Township where sixty percent of the on-lot septic systems are malfunctioning and discharging raw sewage into yards, roadways and the west branch of Coxes Creek.

Venango County

Sugarcreek Borough: $4,900,100 loan to design and construct approximately fourteen miles of new sewage collection lines, four pump stations and other facilities to eliminate wet weather bypasses from the existing facilities and also eliminate the use of 175 malfunctioning on-lot septic systems.

Wayne County

Camp Weequahic, Inc.: $480,000 loan to construct a pump station and rehabilitate existing facilities that are threatening to contaminate Sky Lake with discharges of raw sewage.

Westmoreland County

Hempfield Township Municipal Authority: $2,525,800 loan to construct seven miles of sanitary sewers to serve the Skidmore and Whites Hill areas of the Township, where malfunctioning on-lot septic systems are discharging raw sewage into yards, roadways and Jacks Run.

Latrobe Municipal Authority: $599,000 loan to repair and replace 1,900 feet of sewer lines in order to eliminate the wet weather bypassing of wastewater into Sulpher Run.

Western Westmoreland Municipal Authority: $2,160,940 loan to upgrade the treatment plant and make improvements to various interceptors in order to eliminate the wet weather bypassing of wastewater.

Storm Water

Bedford County

Everett Borough: $297,350 loan to construct storm water improvements to the West Street area of the Borough where deteriorated and inadequate storm sewers and inlets allow flooding of driveways, roadways and yards as well as hazardous roadway conditions.

Washington County

North Franklin Township: $246,092 loan to construct storm drainage facilities on eight streets in the Township where the existing inadequate facilities allow the flooding of roadways and basements.

Contact: Paul K. Marchetti, PENNVEST, +1-717-783-4496.

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